By reusing one of these items to garden, you’ll be starting a new life for a plant and giving a second life to another.

Photo Credit: Shawna Coronado of The Casual Gardener

You don’t need to buy fancy containers or other items, you likely have one or more of these items lying around that can be used.

Here’s a list of things that can be reused as garden planters.

Furniture
If you have some old furniture lying around in the basement or garage, dust it off and get to planting in it.

1. Bed frame
2. Dresser drawers
3. Desk
4. Wicker loveseat
5. Wooden chair

Kids
Much like their clothing, your kids have likely outgrown their toys. That doesn’t mean that you have to get rid of them, repurpose them in your garden.

1. Capri Sun pouch
2. Kickball
3. Kids dump truck
4. Red wagon
5. Stroller
6. Toy Box

Photo Credit: Mike Lieberman of Urban Organic Gardener

Kitchen
Here are some items that can be found in your kitchen that can also be used as garden planters.

1. Bread pan
2. Coconut shell
3. Coffee bag
4. Coffee can
5. Colander
6. Cooler
7. Reusable shopping bag
8. Soda bottle
9. Tea cups

Not For Food
I’m all for growing your own food, but you might not want to plant your edibles in any of these.

1. Bathtub
2. Boots
3. Sewer
4. Tires
5. Toilet bowl

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This is Why You’ve Been Saving These
Some of us are just packrats and hold onto things just in case you ever need them again. Now you have a use for some of those things.

1. Bicyle or Tricycle
2. Bird Bath
3. Birdcage
4. Gutters
5. Mailbox
6. Studebaker pickup
7. Wheelbarrow
8. Whiskey barrel

What are some other unusual things that can be used as garden planters?